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Nebenzia

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“We call for the immediate return of the stolen funds to the Afghan people, including the women and girls about whom our colleagues have spoken today. It seems that the United States and its partners have failed to see that their methods of influencing regimes that they do not like through unilateral sanctions, political and economic pressure and endless ultimatums have long ago ceased to have any effect and lead only to the growing belief that countries must find their own path to self-sufficient development without expecting Western financial assistance. We can see that Kabul also understands that there is no alternative to that path for Afghanistan. In order to build a lasting peace in Afghanistan, it remains imperative to continue a pragmatic dialogue with the new authorities.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“However, it is clear that those measures have not been enough. Western donors remain uninterested in extending assistance beyond basic needs and early-recovery programmes. They loudly proclaim the importance of helping the Afghan people, including women and girls, while categorically rejecting the slightest opportunity to contribute to the country’s development, including by rebuilding schools and hospitals and constructing roads connecting provinces and cities with agricultural areas. In that context, the situation regarding the unfreezing of assets seems particularly outrageous. The attempts by the United States and other major donors to use Afghan funds as a pretext for pursuing their own agenda are immoral. The creation of obstacles and artificial conditions will lead nowhere.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“In particular, we consider that a threat to the security of the staff of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the humanitarian workers working on the ground. The narcotics problem is also of concern. It is clear that the efforts of the de facto authorities to curb this threat are inadequate. Given the widespread hunger and poverty in the country, it is important to create conditions that will help farmers. Afghanistan needs support not just in words but through action, with the participation of the international community and partners in the region. We are also continuing to closely follow the socioeconomic situation in the country. We note the importance of the adoption of resolution 2615 (2021), aimed at expanding channels for the provision of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan without preconditions.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)- Khorasan Province terrorist group, which has emerged and grown in influence in the country over the past 20 years, is deliberately fanning the flames of the situation with increasing acts of terrorism victimizing representatives of religious and ethnic minorities, including women and children. There is also a concerning new trend of attacks on embassies and their employees. Against that backdrop, we cannot fail to notice another vile incursion of militants that recently took place in a hotel in Kabul where Chinese tourists were staying. ISIL clearly aims to instil an atmosphere of fear and demonstrate the inability of the Taliban authorities to control what is happening.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“At the same time, we are seeing our Western colleagues, led by the United States, continue to evade their responsibility and pass the buck by blaming the Taliban for the current deteriorating situation in the country. They lack the courage to acknowledge the reality that has developed since 15 August 2021 and the fact that the country’s de facto authorities are indeed at its helm, making it objectively impossible to resolve Afghanistan’s problems without cooperating with them. The current internal political situation in Afghanistan is truly difficult, with worrisome security risks.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“Instead of enjoying their long-awaited peace, the Afghan people were hit with a humanitarian and economic crisis on an unprecedented scale, in addition to other long-standing problems and sanctions. Meanwhile, the sorry results of the inglorious international campaign, including the numerous war crimes committed by United States and NATO forces, are being carefully swept under the rug as though they had never happened, with some going so far as to threaten sanctions. However, plenty of evidence of those crimes has been collected. Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry has prepared a white paper on it that can be found on the Ministry’s website. We are ready to share its contents with anyone who wants.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“We are pleased that the countries of the region are also able to participate in today’s discussion. We regret the news today of a major fire in the Salang mountain tunnel in Afghanistan, with at least 30 people killed and another 30 injured and with updates on the victims still coming in. We express our sincere condolences to the Afghan people for this tragedy. We took note of the report of the Secretary-General’s report on the situation in Afghanistan (S/2022/916) and would like to make the following points. Almost a year and a half ago, fateful events took place in Afghanistan that drastically changed the course of history in that long-suffering country. Twenty years of war concluded with the rise to power of the Taliban and the hasty retreat of foreign troops.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to thank the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Ms. Roza Otunbayeva, for her assessment of the situation in Afghanistan, and to welcome her to the Security Council Chamber for the first time in her current capacity. The role of her Mission is all the more significant in the current circumstances. We also listened attentively to the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr. Martin Griffiths; the Chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1988 (2011) on the Taliban, Mrs. Ruchira Kamboj; and the civil-society representative, Ms. Mahbouba Seraj.”
2022-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9227 (2022) · source
“We see no insurmountable problems preventing the restoration of the JCPOA. However, we are at a critical and precarious juncture. Attempts to exert pressure on Iran, the unwarranted spiralling of tensions around the JCPOA and far-fetched allegations whose only purpose is to provoke other participants could completely undermine the prospects for reviving the agreement. Should that type of policy prevail, it would be a woeful departure from the high standards of diplomacy that once made it possible to reach agreement on the JCPOA. We urge the parties to demonstrate strategic restraint, adopt a pragmatic stance and focus on reaching a compromise. We are convinced that in that case, a mutually acceptable solution will be reached.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“Russia maintains its continuous focus on cooperation under the Vienna format to expeditiously restore the JCPOA. We also share the view of the Secretary-General that issues unrelated to the Plan should not hinder its preservation and implementation. Of late, we have occasionally heard conjecture that the JCPOA is allegedly obsolete and fails to reflect the existing balance of interests or that it can be replaced with a better deal. This logic is both reckless and dangerous. I urge Council members to consider if talks about the restoration of the JCPOA have been ongoing for nearly two years, then how much time will it take to reach agreement on a hypothetical new deal? And where are the assurances that it is achievable at all? Work on restoring the JCPOA package is already at a mature stage, and it is important not to reverse the gains.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“We are well aware of the fact that representatives of Kyiv have still been unable bilaterally to provide Tehran any documentation to corroborate the use by Russian military personnel of drones of Iranian origin. Despite that, the United States and the European Union believe that it is possible on the basis of their fabrications to attempt to baselessly drag the United Nations Secretariat into this issue and impose sanctions against both Iranian and Russian legal and physical persons. It is noteworthy that attacks against the Russian Federation and Iran around drones were trotted out specifically when negotiations under the Vienna format entered the final stage. This starkly demonstrates who in fact is keen to diplomatically resolve the situation, and who is simply politicizing the discussion and continuously undercutting the JCPOA.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“Given the counterproductive nature of Washington’s steps, all of the subsequent measures undertaken by Tehran were a mere reaction to violations and pressure from the United States. At the same time, we have regrettably seen no intentions from our American colleagues to ease tensions and rejoin the JCPOA. Doubts about the sincerity of assurances about commitment to this goal have been stoked by public statements that American officials allow themselves to make. But, specifically, a restoration of the deal is apparently not on the United States agenda. We wish to separately touch upon another issue, which has nothing to do with the restoration of the JCPOA, but that Western colleagues are attempting to drum up: the alleged deliveries of drones by Iran to Russia for use in Ukraine. These allegations are patently concocted and false.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“We also firmly believe that there is no alternative to the Plan, and we believe that it is of tremendous importance, in principle, to promptly restore compliance in full therewith. The JCPOA had become a reality thanks to the professional, depoliticized and constructive approach of participants in the process. The development of the Plan was not only practical in nature, but it also had an important political effect. Seven years ago, our joint efforts demonstrated to the world that diplomacy works and, in the presence of political will, allows for results to be achieved despite existing divergences and disagreements. However, subsequent events reflected the fact that, unfortunately, not all parties are willing to embrace the spirit of the JCPOA. The actions of the United States have chipped away at the basis of the deal.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“The Russian Federation has already provided a detailed legal analysis about this matter, and the United Nations Secretariat should not bow to pressure from Western countries and violate the United Nations Charter. We wish to note once again that any results of the pseudo-investigation into the 2231 (2015) cell are, from a legal standpoint, null and void, while references to any alleged practice in the conduct of inspections are irrelevant. Recurrence of violations cannot create a precedent. At the same time, it is with satisfaction that we note that the Secretary-General has voiced his assessment of the JCPOA as the optimal tool for strengthening the non-proliferation regime and regional security.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“It is not the first time that we have voiced our concerns about the so-called investigations mentioned in the report carried out by the United Nations Secretariat in the context of implementation of resolution 2231 (2015). Both in our letters and during our statements at Security Council meetings, we have repeatedly emphasized the fact that these kinds of actions — as well as encouragement to carry out these acts by certain States, to which we have recently borne witness, including today — constitute an egregious violation of both the provisions of the note by the President of the Security Council contained in document S/2016/44 of 16 January 2016, which explicitly sets out the mandate for the Secretariat in relation to the aforementioned resolution, and the United Nations Charter directly, specifically Article 100 thereof.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“On the whole, one is left with the impression that the Secretary-General and our Western colleagues are now attempting, to the extent that it is possible, to obscure the fact that Washington withdrew unilaterally from the JCPOA in 2018. That generates a distorted picture, as if the deal had begun to unravel on its own or — and this is even more absurd — that the impasse is something for which Tehran is to blame in the first place. Let us recall that we need to talk not about waivers on the restrictions, but a full lifting — on a consistent and verifiable basis — of the illegitimate discriminatory measures imposed by the United States against Iran, in breach of resolution 2231 (2015). The report of the Secretary-General may generate the misguided perception that waivers alone would suffice.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“At the same time, we regret the fact that in his statement the Facilitator failed to directly point to the root cause known to all for the current issues plaguing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), namely, the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the deal and the subsequent violations by the United States of its provisions, including the imposition of unilateral sanctions against Iran. This major flaw has also been visible in the biannual report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015) (S/2022/912). It appears as if, based on the latter report, that the actions of the United States and Iran are effectively equal in magnitude.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We wish to thank the Under-Secretary- General, Ms. Rosemary DiCarlo, the Chargé d’affaires ad interim of the Delegation of the European Union, Mr. Silvio Gonzato, and Mr. Fergal Mythen, the Security Council Facilitator for the implementation of resolution 2231 (2015), the Permanent Representative of Ireland, for their briefings. We wish to note the efforts undertaken by the Irish side to ensure operations of the Council’s 2231 (2015) format. The consensus-based adoption of the biannual report of the Facilitator (see S/2022/937), as it appears, was a worthy conclusion of the two-year term of Ireland in this post.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9225 (2022) · source
“We believe there is no alternative to direct negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis on all the parameters for a final settlement. In that connection, we support the package of resolutions on the Middle East peace process adopted by the General Assembly last week (resolutions 77/123, 77/124, 77/125 and 77/126). We believe that the international community has its own constructive role to play, both in the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli issue and in alleviating the acute humanitarian and socioeconomic situations in the occupied territories, especially Gaza. We attach great importance to continuing the effective work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which provides support to Palestinians both in the occupied territories and in neighbouring Arab countries.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9224 (2022) · source
“The Russian Federation is committed to resolving the conflict in the Middle East in line with the provisions of international law and supports resuming the Quartet’s activities as soon as possible. History has shown more than once that the United States’ efforts to monopolize the Middle East peace process are untenable and doomed to failure, serving only to exacerbate the antagonism between Palestinians and Israelis. Suffice it to say that Washington’s attempts to single-handedly resolve the conflict in 2014 took the peace process to a particularly low point of stagnation, where it remains to this day. For our part, we continue to advocate for meeting the Palestinian people’s legitimate aspirations for their own independent State, based on the universally recognized international legal framework.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9224 (2022) · source
“Meanwhile, the expropriation and demolition of Palestinian property continue, along with systematic violations of the status quo of Jerusalem’s holy sites. Besides that, Israel’s arbitrary illegal actions go beyond the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, affecting neighbouring Arab countries with numerous violations of their sovereignty, including attacks on Syrian and Lebanese territory. Against that backdrop, the United States, on fabricated pretexts, has withdrawn from participating the Middle East Quartet of international mediators, whose other participants are Russia, the European Union and the United Nations. That decision has essentially blocked the work of that multilateral mechanism endorsed by many Security Council resolutions.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9224 (2022) · source
“In the context of the information provided by the Special Coordinator on the progress made in the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016), we reaffirm our principled position whereby the establishment of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, constitutes a violation of international law and one of the main obstacles to resolving the conflict. Mass arbitrary arrests of Palestinians occur on a daily basis. In the West Bank, the Israelis continue to conduct disproportionately violent raids, while there are also regular outbreaks of violence around the Gaza Strip. According to available statistics, since the beginning of the year 158 people have been killed in the West Bank and 52 in Gaza. In yet another tragic incident, a young girl named Jana Zakarneh was killed in Jenin last week.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9224 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We thank Mr. Tor Wennesland for his report on the implementation of resolution 2334 (2016). We note the alarming frequency of the spiking violence that is recurring in the occupied Palestinian territories, including the West Bank and Gaza. We believe firmly that the situation will remain volatile until the parties reach mutually acceptable agreements on all final-status issues based on the generally recognized international legal framework for the Middle East peace process, with a two-State solution — which we have always supported — as a central element.”
2022-12-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9224 (2022) · source
“We are convinced that countering terrorism can only be done by acting together, with strict adherence to the norms and principles of international law, including the United Nations Charter, with the United Nations playing a central and coordinating role, and by paying due regard to the primary responsibility of States in countering terrorism.”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“Unfortunately, these promises remain empty, which shows that every time new human rights wording is proposed, these countries think that this language is addressed to everyone but themselves. In conclusion, I would like to thank India, which has focused so much attention during its Council presidency on the issue of coordinating the international community’s efforts to counter terrorism. Unfortunately, the threat of terrorism is changing very quickly. It takes on new forms and adapts the most advanced technologies to its needs.”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“Many of those who are vocal advocates for human rights in the counter-terrorism context have to date done nothing to investigate the horrific instances of torture, abuse and extrajudicial killings of people accused of terrorism or under investigation in the prisons of Afghanistan, Iraq or other countries where special secret jails were located. Do we know anything about those who have been found guilty in these cases? Have there been any proceedings at all? Who has been brought to account under these proceedings? Could our colleagues tell us anything at all about the functioning of the prison in Guantanamo? That is indeed a very striking example of human rights violations in the context of countering terrorism. Incidentally, for 10 years now, promises to close Guantanamo have been made.”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“We also have questions with regard to the conceptual approaches to countering terrorism, in particular the creation of a separate category for some kind of “violent extremist”. The seemingly harmless use of language could lead to serious consequences, keeping us from combating terrorism, breaking our focus and devaluing our joint efforts in this regard, while the terrorists themselves end up being sheltered from the international prosecution mechanism. We are witnessing attempts to pack Security Council documents on counter-terrorism with human rights dimensions, including the gender dimension. We are left with the impression that catchy statements are being made for the sake of making such statements, or to shift the focus away from one’s own unsavoury record.”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“In November, we received the report of the-Secretary General entitled “Terrorist attacks on the basis of xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance, or in the name of religion or belief” (A/77/266). In this regard, we would like to draw attention to an important detail. The report shows that there is a regional aspect to such attacks, as they are localized in the countries of Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Australia and Oceania. Because of this, there is reason to believe that these regions are characterized by certain trends. It remains for us to determine what the root cause in Western society for this phenomenon is. Why has it come into being there? And why is it progressing so rapidly?”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“They were being trained in third countries, which supplied them with money and weapons. Subsequently, they were provided with shelter, and they were even granted political refugee status. Even more outrageously, there were even attempts to present hardened terrorist organizations as opposition parties or humanitarians, but the outcome of this was the same: then as now, criminals remain criminals, and when they are endorsed by sponsors and have the freedom of manoeuvre, they continue to advance their terrorist ideology. They continue to organize and perpetrate terrorist attacks, and they often even turn their weapons against their forebears, as was the case with Al-Qaida and ISIL. Evil always returns like a boomerang, and when it happens, an international coalition needs to be formed to combat it.”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“In order to be successful in this context, some, of course, will have to display strong political will, and some will have to reject their policies of double standards. Eradicating the phenomenon of terrorism is impossible until such time and for as long as terrorists are being used for geopolitical purposes and are being separated into categories of good, bad and not-too-bad terrorists. Unfortunately, we have more than enough examples of this being done, and we were subjected to this approach ourselves when we were conducting counter-terrorism operations in our own territory in the 1990s, as well as during the period in which the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria was ongoing. International terrorists found sponsors for themselves.”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“The work of these bodies in striving to react to current trends gives us hope that the existing international counter-terrorism architecture will continue to be capable of tackling the new and emerging threats and challenges. The coordinating role of the United Nations, the principle of affected States having primary responsibility, and respect for States’ sovereignty, nationalcharacteristicsandprioritiesarethefundamental conditions on which international cooperation should be built. Let me recall in this regard that the United Nations counter-terrorism mechanism — first and foremost in the Security Council — is already developed. It is up to Member States to implement the commitments they undertook. It is only in this way that we will come closer to the desired outcome, namely, reducing the threat of terrorism.”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): Allow me, first of all, to express our condolences to the delegation of Ireland following the death of the Irish peacekeeper in Lebanon. We thank the Indian delegation for convening the meeting today on such a relevant topic, and we express our support for all victims of terrorism, represented here today by Ms. Kulthe. We thank Mr. Voronkov and Mr. Weixiong Chen for their detailed analyses of the threats that we are facing and overviews of the situation in countering terrorism as a whole. We are grateful for the efforts of the Office of Counter-Terrorism and the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate in countering terrorism.”
2022-12-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9221 (2022) · source
“It is necessary simply to do away with phobias, stereotypes and all geopolitical games to listen to and respect the one another’s interests and red lines — and not just when things have already gotten to the point of conflict, but when the warning bells are ringing. Russia was and remains ready to do that, and we expect others to do the same.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“The task of building a genuinely multipolar world has no alternative. However, getting to that world could hardly be possible given the division between nations and States, the crisis of confidence and the build- up of the potential for confrontation in international relations. Humankind needs to learn from its mistakes. It is unacceptable for “the worst students of history”, in Indira Gandhi’s phrase, to shamelessly try to impose solutions that only suit them on everyone else. We must all be aware of our shared responsibility in creating the conditions for the safe and harmonious development of future generations. We must clearly understand that the emergence of a genuinely inclusive multilateralism, the establishment of a polycentric world order and the reform of the United Nations are interrelated processes.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“There is a need to rid the Organization of everything that is confrontational to restore its full membership as the platform for frank discussions where mutually acceptable and respectful solutions are found, so as to achieve an unambiguous confirmation of commitment of everyone to all of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter. It was with that aim in mind that, in July 2021, the Group of Friends in Defence of the United Nations Charter was created, with Russia as a founding member, and which now includes approximately two dozen countries in its membership. The Group’s aim is to ensure strict compliance with universal norms of international law as a counterweight to harmful unilateral approaches. We call upon everyone that agrees with this position to join it.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“These ideas are something that we could have heard at the dawn of the United Nations, and they are something that we have discussed throughout the years of the Organization’s existence. Of course, in general, the Council and the United Nations do need to be adapted to modern realities. Without that, it is hard to imagine genuine representation, multipolarity and equality in the relations among Member States. We see prospects for the democratization of the Security Council exclusively — and I underscore exclusively — through the expansion of representation of countries from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Now more than ever, the United Nations needs to be protected by responsible Member States.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“This rules-based order, which has nothing to do with international law, circumvents universal structures and convention mechanisms, while it creates exclusive Western controls, partnerships, alliances, and summits on democracies that are intended, inter alia, to discuss key issues on the global agenda in formats that do not include countries that they disfavour, and within these closed formats — behind closed doors — they formulate their famous rules on various aspects of international life. All of these negative trends are found in a concentrated form within the United Nations. This has been the case in today’s discussion of reform of the Security Council and how the Council is allegedly not effective.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“In trying to restore its dominating position and its single-handed management of global processes, the United States of America, together with its satellites, is betting on creating a broad coalition with the aim of targeting the new main alternative centres of power. The conceptual rules-based order is drafted based on a map of the world boiled down from complex international processes to primitive forms of the confrontation between democracies and authoritarian regimes. In the West, it is a crusade against autocracy, and its leaders are trying to involve as many States as possible in their efforts.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“Today we see crises not only in global security, but also in the system of international economic trade and financial relations. One need only look at what is happening in the World Trade Organization. Only the laziest person would say that there is no need to reform international financial institutions today. We have long been saying that confrontational concepts and the rules-based order, about which we have heard much today, are being preserved as integral parts of the foreign policy strategy of the collective West. In practical terms, they are being advanced as a framework for countering key trends in global development, the democratization of international relations, and the formation of a multipolar world order.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“The West is being unscrupulous when choosing its methods and means to achieve its goals. Today they have bet on the exhaustion and strategic defeat of Russia. Anyone who believes that is a stance adopted only since February is wrong. I invite them to read the report by the RAND Corporation entitled Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground. Although the report was issued in 2019, it gives a full account of the tools that the West is putting into practice against Russia today. And that applies not only to Russia. Pressure and unilateral sanctions have become the trademark and, indeed, the only tool of Western policy in recent years, and they serve as an instrument for coercion of the unfortunate or those who dissent.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“The Ukrainian crisis, which the collective West is desperately trying to blame on our special military operation, which began on 24 February, is only one of the elements of this multidimensional crisis that the world had been heading towards for a long time. It is a systemic crisis, the preconditions of which formed gradually over the course of two or three decades. Having built up NATO’s absolute right to expand to the detriment of the principle of indivisible security, Western States have brought the European continent to the brink of a confrontation that could set the entire world ablaze. Moreover, NATO today has a global ambition. In the run-up to the crisis, the West was unwilling to engage in sensible dialogue, and that continues to be its position.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“The alternatives are clear: it is going to be either a world order with a single hegemon that establishes rules that only it finds beneficial or a democratic, equitable, multipolar and United Nations- centric world free of blackmail, dominance, intimidation of the unwanted and neocolonialism. It is clear that the main beneficiaries of this obsolete system are not happy with the latter option. In trying to resurrect the unipolar model under the slogan of the “rules-based order”, the West is drawing dividing lines everywhere and is seeking to expand its influence into more regions of the globe.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“Mr. Nebenzia (Russian Federation) (spoke in Russian): We would like to thank India for the choice of topic for today’s debate. The world is going through difficult times. Crises are on the rise and international security is deteriorating. The stance of a group of Western States to preserve their monopoly and privilege in the world is undermining trust in international institutions as organs for determining collective interests, as well as trust in international law, as embodied in the Charter of the United Nations, and in the United Nations- centric model of the world as such. That did not start in February 2022. It is obvious that the future world order is being decided today.”
2022-12-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9220 (2022) · source
“I would like to call upon those who can objectively look at the information and soberly assess the risk coming from the uncontrolled pumping of the Ukrainian regime with weapons and look at the threat it poses to the maintenance of international peace and security, which is the Security Council’s main responsibility. These threats are not diminishing; rather, they are growing, because Western countries do not understand that they are fuelling the fire with their uncontrolled arms transfers.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“I know that all the representatives of those Western countries who will take the floor after me will try to shift the blame and start talking about the military supplies being transferred from Iran to Russia, which is an assertion that has already been refuted many times. The military-industrial complex in Russia is working perfectly fine and does not need anyone’s assistance, whereas the Ukrainian military industry basically does not exist, so it needs to assistance from Western industry. Western companies are enjoying huge profits from this situation, so they certainly are not going to give it up simply to bring about peace.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“We know about the discussions of this topic in European parliaments and the American Congress, but we also see that the ruling elites there basically silence any opposition when a careful audit of every dollar or euro sent to Ukraine at the expense of the Western taxpayers is called for. In the course of Senate hearings on the bill authorizing an audit of United States assistance to Ukraine, Democratic representative Gerald Connolly said that he supports transparency and accountability, but not right now, which is probably the best illustration of the double standards of the American establishment and its desire to support its vassal.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“Kovalik today quoted the President of Nigeria, who said that the Ukrainian conflict is a main source of weapons for Boko Haram terrorists in the Lake Chad area. Why are these egregious cases of cross- border trafficking in illegal weapons, in which corrupt Ukrainian officials participate — as do, obviously, European and American officials — not being investigated? Is this not a direct threat to international peace and security to which the international community should be paying attention? The same also applies to the billions in so- called assistance — for military and humanitarian purposes — to Kyiv, a large part of which remains in the pockets of interested persons.”
2022-12-09 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9216 (2022) · source
“NATO weaponry that Helsinki hoped would help Finland defend itself is now threatening the lives of Finnish citizens. I would like to remind members that the issue of weaponry being stolen from Ukrainian warehouses first arose a long time ago. Recent reports by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research state that in 2020 they discovered a scheme to illegally divert weaponry — heavy weaponry, including tanks — which could only have come from army warehouses. Of course, Washington and European capitals are well aware of this, but pumping Ukraine with weapons is more important to them. The situation has gotten so out of control that the weaponry for Kyiv is now appearing on the black market, not just in Europe, but also in the Middle East and in Africa. Mr.”
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“In other words, the United States is currently pushing those countries to violate foundational arms control standards, which is an example of how it upholds the so-called rules-based order, namely, by violating international law in actual fact. Another important topic is the spread of the weapons supplied to Ukraine throughout the world. In the September meeting on this topic (see S/PV.9127), we warned about the risk of these weapons ending up in the hands of terrorists and criminals. This is not conjecture. It is, rather, a warning — and the concern of the police forces across Europe. For example, the Finnish police have received information about weapons supplied to Kyiv falling into the hands of criminals in their country, as well as in Sweden, Denmark and Poland.”
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“Obviously, when Western countries do this, they are violating the obligations they have under the international Arms Trade Treaty, which provides for a ban on exports to those regions where such exports could lead to violations of international humanitarian law and an intensification of conflict. However, they are not held back by that, and they go even further: on 30 November, Secretary Blinken talked about resuming the manufacture of Soviet combat systems in Eastern European countries so as to then supply them to the Kyiv regime. Organizing the manufacture of Soviet and Russian weaponry in these factories is regulated by international agreements that stipulate the commitment not to provide such goods without our consent.”
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